Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

A while back I somewhat impulsively bought a floor-model Brother MFC-7365DN printer that was on the clearance shelf at Sam’s. I say somewhat impulsively because I needed a new printer and I was seriously looking at the Brother MFC line, but I didn’t know much about this particular model and hadn’t, prior to walking in […]

Sometimes it’s easier to work with a standalone app than it is to use a web app in a browser—if you want to keep an eye open for to a chat or you need to copy and paste from other windows, it’s much easier to do if the app isn’t buried in a million tabs. […]

OK, so you have a Raspberry Pi running heedlessly (no keyboard or screen) on your network and you want to do something with it. What do you do? Well, there’s SSH, of course, but what if you want to play with any of the Pi’s graphical tools? The Raspbian OS (as well as most of […]

I run a VPN on my home network which lets me access my systems and files remotely and gives me a secure route to the Internet when I have to use questionable networks. Since my Internet provider does not give me a static IP address, I rely on dynamic DNS services to keep my IP […]

“I should get a Raspberry Pi,” I said one night as we were watching TV. “Well, if that’s what you really want, put it on the list and I’ll get one when I go to Wegmans,” Denise replied, thinking my comment to be a bit random. I wasn’t talking about about desert, of course, but […]